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WEDNESDAY,

NOVEMBER 14г8, 1917.

SOCIALISTS IN ITALY.

A TRAITOROUS CIRCULAR Two Ministerial Councils have been Mr Perry Robinson writes from convoked and held with urgency in Home France

und a third is announced, to discuss the

The outstanding fact of the recent fight ing here has been the same as it was on the Somme last year, namely, the amuz ing quality of our men.

One talks about it less now than vDE did a year ago, because then our new Armies were untired, and their gallantry came, not indeed unexpectedly, but con Arming our highest hopes, as a revelation But now the thing is familiar. We know the men are going to fight anywhere and overywhere Ins

Instances heroism are still passed about; but they are little compared to the heroism f the DILSE, of which one thinks it megO": anry to speak no more than in mention-

THE SERGEANT ON BAYONETS, *We will now 'ave a little talk about the spirit of the bayonet, said the ser geant. Now, there's some people as

SOCIAL REFORMS ADVOCATED IN CHINA. OFFICIAL CIRCULAR TO BE DIS TRIBUTED AMONG THE PEOPLE. internal situation. The gravity of cer queer ideas about bayonets; fact has submitted the following document to The Department of Rites and Customs thin facis, due to the extrema liberty there's some people 'us queer ideas about the Minister of the Interior for circule bilberto accorded to the expression of nola lot of things, Owever, wot we're political opinions, has been revealed, andre to talk about is the bayonet an ion in the provinces explaining the evils vetero measures are considered necessary. Private: Iggins keeps on whisperservance of the funeral rites to deceased of early marriage, the necessity for ob- int Corriere della Dera, in a vigorous Private Jordan's car Ellave to ask the lender, denounces in scatuing language company commander to 'ave a word with foot binding and the vice of gambling. parents the jumportance of abolishing. 'im to-morrow mornin' at nine-thirty on It is learned that the Minister of the

MAE SCHON OS theic misguided agitatura. aurelia especially to an extraordinary

waica urged their followers KM

cular issued by secretary of the the subject of ow to pass the time in Interion will send it to all the high pro-

upped they thing to suition, U.B. Yes, Private Iggins, I was refer vincial

authorities for distribution 20 bar up by means of inunicipai rin to you. If you think you know among the people after making some ises subversive agitations in all towns moren i do about the spirit of the modifications in the hope that society

it. I'm sure I'm always willin' to learn.

ing a rose is it necessary to dwell on Were the Doctaliane „ave a majority on bayonet, come out 'ere an' tell us all about aay be uplifted and morality improved.

Well, now, the bayonet is not put 'ere for the sake of decoration. Don't none

The document reads

In order to settle the mind of the people it is imperative that rites and

of you run away with that idea. Of ditions of the nation should be a course, it's very pretty lookin' to see the loved, and all had customs abolished sus shirin on a well-polished bayonet, Since the inauguration of the Republic Luis 18 not treason, IL Els is not openly but that ain't wot the bayonet's for six years have elapsed, during which

Liis Lõunclisanronga tue spread dzia its scent and hues nad shape.

Talking to a Divisional Commandare intensification of such agitations we

I asked about the general be soula produce suca an unnenvaa recently haviour of his men. Oh, he anid, tu conpel italy to separate from her they're rippers, absolute toppers, every es au conclude a separate peace te- man of them His men came chiefly tore the winters g

manufacturing districts in from certain the North of England: Within the last two days an Army Commander, replying to the same question, broke eut Oh, they're extraordinarily, good; couldn' be he better, to mation her nude in

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Soins Contents for November,

LEADING-ARTICLES:-"

A Plain Word about Mrs. Bwant. Three Orators. The Stockholm Hullaballoo Japanese Missions to America.

PROGRESS OF THE WORLD..

The Grave Humorist. Mr. David Lubin'- Latter. A Poet's Saurifice. Matthew Macis The Law and the Author. A Library for 65 You. Chesterton and Wolls. Art and Harl Cush. Byegone Days in the West Economics East and West. Milion Drownel. The Tientsin Disaster Titles and Party Fauds The Pity War Chest An Englishman, A. D. 1017 Western Foot Binding. Fashion Platas to The Way of the Bied Adoptions in the West, Alberts. Again. Filipino Isis Saving Se

Scenery by Law. LAST MONTH IN JAPAN.

Tas Typhon. All in a Fortnight. Sarvioss for Dad Animals: Mr. MaClure. The Educational Council Tas New Toucher. Geography and History Some Domestic Budget Discaaragat Scholters Anti-Hookworm Millions Who Need Not Die An Urgent Problem in Japan. The Motor in Tokyo. Japanese Mathematics,

East and West.

THE WORLD AT WARDA SMAR

Public Men on the Wic Japan's Help. Japanese sal Von Spee British Women in Uniform. New Talat of an Amazon. An Imperial Lis. Inefficiency in Lying. Two Bagoss. Kaiser, Japan and Britain. Shall Gibraltar bs Cadnút The Surprised Useman. Sandinavian Sympathy. Food Prices and Expxlients. Killing the Woundel. Tas Acoplane Industry. A Hint. In the Remite Pacific. South America's Stand, War Caricatures.

A MESSAGE TO THE FAR EAST

LIFE OF A JAPANESE VILLAGE...

MY COUNTRY AND THE WAR

MINING INDUSTRY'S HIDDEN FOE

COMMERCIAL MORALITY WEST AND EAST AN EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL JUSTICE TYPHOON IMPRESSIONS

AN ANGLO JAPANESE SAILOR ABOUT GERMAN EXCELLENCE IN MUSIC OUR LETTER FROM CHINA

APANESE WIFE AND AMERICAN HUSBAND

THE WAR MONTH BY MONTH ...

SOME COMMON ERRORS ABOUT INDIA

...G. Bernard Shaw.

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Baron Shibusawa.

An American Scientist. David Lubin.

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Hotties or nothing show there ain't and props are roigned and systems no ill feelin' principles have been trampled under to annoy you or to make the rifle fees fallacious doctrines, which have done a Nor the bayonet ain't put there just foot. Popular scholars bave preached avier'n wot it in There's some chaps

thinks that a soldier is a thing to 'ang world of mischief to society. things on an when you think of all has been disregarded by the public and Morality the things a soldiers to carry in this ere war, stoel elmiste an' gas olmets an rates and traditions have not been ch bombs, as well as is rifle an 'undreds served. an undreds of roun's of ammunition,

No one has protested againat you'd mebbe think that that description this rapid deterioration, and the of "ini was right.

maye standard of society has become exceeding ch 1 'oldere No, this bayonet which I 'oldere in ly low. As it is the duty of this Ministry my 'and is not meant for ostentatious display ostentatious was the word to improve the moral condition of the used, an there ain't no need for no one people, we hereby point out the follow to show is ignorance on in this megating causes of deterioration it ain't meant for annoyance it's meant

Tois, agus the Curriert, is not the brat nor the gravest proos on the anlamat

audacity or our enemy at home. Ir co-operating with Le Mitary forces and intrigues of our enemig Lue Austrians and Germans, then we don't know what else is treason. The Corriere calls upon the Government to put an end to such way misguided agitation, and says Ministers will be justined in any rigorous measures his men had fought And the way they stick by each other, he had said. by hay adopt the Socialists, of what

They are ever ik, in whatever hatente country is simply magnificent," troops of mixed English county.

found, are working wita bland infatua regi ments, and have suffered since the was tion in the supreme interests, not of the began as heavy losses na any diy

division in own country, but of the enemy. Ger the Army a man's last nope, after her Auge armies,

Are they tired { "___|

Doner Zeppelins, and ber submarines have they want pence Not a bad peace.

Not one of them failed, is based on the moral stench and was the quick reply,

putrefaction of all this asphyxiating They understand row what this war Socialist gas in the Allied countries. which at the beginning the But as the Stockholm scheme has fallen believe through, so vigorous measures taken at this to be true. Tired Of course, then on. Daily Telegraph, air of this infee

tired individually, physically, and tion. Bentally tired. But British Army is very stern and set in its purpose now Many men there are undoubtedly who fight for the love of fighting, but in the mass our inen fight now not from advon turousness, not from discipline, but he WAT and propose to win this know that, for the world's sake, win

they

they must

It might have been a very

very nice war said a sergeant if the Germans would tries, have recently succeeded in unearth- have fought it right. But those flu sa ispersing large and well or one purpose, an one purpose only, an have been married too early. Moreover, The German has notganized Gernian submarine intelligence this afternoon you're goin' to lean ow as a rule, the issue of such marriages is. sought it right; and it is a vile and Swedensored a naval intell you that the great thing to semeruber is nation has become weak and incapable

Partice headquarters

rs in Gothenburg, to use it for that purpose. But before

start practisin with it, let me inform always unhealthy, and consequently the The

officers

discovered a gence map of the waters surrounding the to get there first. You know the poem of accomplishing anything. All modern pritish Teles and the North Boa The about Old Mother Ubbard, don't you? water area on the way) was divided into Old Mother Ubbard, she went to the scholars and philosophers have unani- elaborate Code was also found for use in thirst, but when she got there, the cup- elabor

- "^2.—Funeral Rites and Ceremonica.

From my own observation,

cause

SPY BASE IN SWEDEN.-

NEW DETAILS,

A United Preas despatch from Stock intelligence officers, with the co-operation bolm states that Allied secret service and

for one thing only. Now, Iggins, you1-Early Atorringes. According to was makin' yourself look uglier than ancient custom, a man could only marry usual by trying to smile just now-praps at 30 years of age, and a girl at 20, you can tell us wot the bayonet's for?

Eh! Makin' the Uns 'op it! No, my and in Europe and America the age of boy, you're wrong, absolutely Wrong, marriage has also been fixed by civil laws. absolutely wrong and

The purpose of the bayonet is not, The evils of carly marriage are numerous but to make the Uns incapable of 'oppin coming weak and enfeebled and neglect- as Iggius said, to make the Uns 'op it, We have always noticed young men ho of the police of the Bandinavian count, which is two diff'rent things altoge ing their studies simply because they

ther. This ere bit of steel 'ere got

summer-perhaps of the war has small squares, each ono numbered. An cupboard to get somethink to quencher mously condemned early marriage.

about, the Ypres conjunction with this map. board was bare er cld man ad been For thousands of years China has ob region Germans evidently realenges has on this code, although there fret all served rites and traditions, which have

and we

TE is

with me when subject of curiosity Rwedish

years. Just 15 the old Regular Army

WAS

For

Although

It ain't for openin' bully beef tins or ed down to us by our father cord- all know wat this 'ere bit of steel's for forget the old ones which have been hand- toastin bread or tryin' bacon or chop-

on to us that? Awright, then, pin wood. It's for killin Uns. Goting to our national customs, after the In two ranks death of a parent, & son must be in Fall in

mourning for three years; but of late people have tried to reduce the period.. The most surprising thing is that many have adopted foreign customs. They assert that there is no truth in the exist

BIG FREIGHT STEAMER LAUNCHED IN JAPAN. REPORTED SALE OF THE VESSELence of departed spirits, hence they have

TO BRITISH OWNERS.

dispensed with the custom of providing food in the morning and evening for the spirit of their deceased parents. They refuse to wear course clothing, and try to obliterate the memory of their parents as soon as possible. These new errors is a sister ship of the Fone-maru, which have becomes deeply rooted in the mind #the people and wrought a serious sold to a Norwegian firm. The new vessel

A freight steamer ordered by the Suzuki Shoten of Kobe, was launched by the Mitsubishi Dockyard and Engine Works, Nagasaki, recently. The vessel

And the last layer gets kneaded into ne shells when they have a job to doi Jiwas built at the Dockyard last year and hauge, in society. On the other hand

Owners

parents..

sions are dreadful war; and our men know. it now. and now that there is nothing else to do but crush the Power which made it

ich made it so SPIRIT OF OUR Ming of the Some of the hardest fighting going on of late in the Westbork Zanvoorde

apparently reading like private morean-Well, that's wot you got to keep Melissa crucial point in their positile gard this

telegrams and tions, and have Bung in troops against reality be deciphered into accurate in com got to get there first. The kept up our national spirit.

and cablegrams, could in us recklessly believe that one of our descriptions of Allied men-of-war or of anythink like that. E's goin' to land the form of State has been altered, wa

Un ain't goin' to say, After you corps has bad no less than 16 divisions against it during the month of August.erent of neutral merchantmen

One of the chict branches of the you one in the stummick if 'e can, an' have the same society. we Gothenburg office, the The struggle has been desperate,

you got to prevent 'im, an' land im one to introduce new rites, we must not In our anxiety have made headway only very slowly in Christianit

headquartrs,

Bagi padin in instead. See An' now I ope you Within the last days I have talked

Inst. few fartue of his post another

branch was in Malmo, Sweden, with an officer tion should be thoroughly qualified to speak on the subject, and he told me that Scandinavian

the German spies in Gothenburg were had he known men conle out of A. Norwegian paper recently published Trever battle in better spirits than those who have

been fighting there Bad 1 they of the German sea spies code, as

follows but it's been pretty bad b 177 Torpedo-boat

Barrel, Ist series a lot of my we're

British

First quality And they have

Norwegian

Black painted A never

Blue talking with officers of Danish

the

Red almost

quality of the every grade is

Russian .-.-.-.

Sixth quality new drafts, and I bave never yet met

An order for 600 barrels fire, quality p and with his latest drafts apprehensive

fret series, would mean British tor so for about his next, This has been two

pedo boats in square 600 on chart. faired for the Territorials and the first Territorials feared for all the later men. And the transport drivers, how comes so each successive layer of the newest it that they are all brave, all possessed fears for the layer that will come nest of Is the had supreme contempt for with it, shares the mid fears as to you ask sp infantryman or gunner who Jump the

quality of those who will be coming was the bravest man he has sech be will is understood to have been sold to British there are many who believe in geomancy. STAY ON THE ROAD man cr gunner in the exercise of his The Tone-marit No. 2 is a steel, single submitted a set of regulations to the

ufter. So it goes ou-mid look at them speak probably not of another infantry-

SANNA and have delayed the interment of their Some time ago this Ministry Who would say whether the men of

Rerow steamer, and has been built in ac President on the rites and company swinging along the road led carry duizes, but of some runner who company swing for two months or two signals," who had the care of telephone Department of Communications and owing to the disturbances in the country

messages, some engineer cordance with the regulations of the gov

governing marriages and funerals, but ceremonies years! It is not. a very full company, or telegraph wires, or some

could be mark the copper-

per-bronto faces and the quit. So it is all through the Army and it Surveyors of Lloyd's Register of Ship matters

such fidence and rythm of the march. And is imposible not to wonder daily how ping, by whom she will be classed 100 A1. the young officer at their head: Good these men hid their qualities before the Her principal dimensions are as follow: Last year this Ministry issued a circular

The Practice of

of Foot-Binding. news knows what he was two years ago, war, and what has shaped them to what Length, 40 feet; breadth, 58 feet instructing all the police authorities but to-day he is an officer and a soldier they are t

has shape them to depth, 34 feet; gross tonnage, 7,317. She of the country to enforce the prohibition to-day.jp

URY SPA PROLIG every inch of him, fit for men to follow.

will be fitted with triple expansion of foot-binding, and as a result of the A week ago, on the const, just behind engines of 3,750 horsepower and have a efforts of the provinces there is Dow less the Another company passes them road going the other way, Tuller in the reach of shells. I watched men ut speed of twelve knots

foot-binding in large towns and cities. **** in real" take their horses into the sen, strength and without the stains.

The Fose-maru No. 2 was commented But in cent battle on the uniforms. But the naked men on bareback horses flesh

Horg secluded

regions this on June 12th and she will be completed ties has continued as Home to faces are as bronzed and the tread is flesh. There were more than 300 of them,

for service by the middle of November say that it is hard to frit. The two pass in silence with and they went out in a great bowsanped line, cantering: shouting, racing through

sanctioned customs; but we friendly measuring eyes those just com

the continuation of this practice that ing out from the doors of death, and the long shallow of the incoming tide till

18 raider due to the fact that local officials have those just passing in but there is on the water rose from hoof to fedlock

not tried to

the evil of this prac- criticism in the gate of the one nor envy fetlock to belly and belly zo back until

Bud that of the othe::othing was to be seen but the horses dor apprehension

countrymen. Foreigners and part of the neex neither pride of duty well done on the

and side or fear of failure to do it on the awash to the waists

such practice, and we cannot acknowledging

t help Then they

tant it is a disgrace to came

in one glorious And the long trains of guns and artilace for home, & was of black shining ist the Dagblad of Christania, the Republia We do not mean to bind the feet of women of old age, but we lery transport, you can stand and, as they skin and whirling, white arms, all veiled

The German official newsagency isave decided that such an evil practice pass slowly, study each individual man, in a amother of form, in which the sun

using the Sukhomlinoff trial to prove

should be allowed in the younger gen- evidence of the care that is taken of the for the horses but, of how good it vsa ca adance a Title evidence which throwa animali, the confidence of the drivers, or the men But how came they all to

universally been recognized the serene, hastanes of brown cosy Jud otsort. What are bo pore ius in Germinay in the last week of July, fost do the country. Many people have ing their proper occupations become man. Who were they before the war hero far have they not travelled from a Christiane ostmaster thieves and robbers while young men How long have they been hiero Is their old ways of life and thought By of Christiani, published the following have been led astray by the greed of gait how much are they not better mentor Note, which has not the the attention it Aambeing louse late Thing Dynasty but soldiers were ever anything. Two simicher-bourers were pointett deserves: During the last few days a gathing fourished in every provin

Zato me as having been particularly gallant quantity of postal matter destined for and when have all the despatch riders I spoke to them, and found that one had various European countries has been redent, he did his best to suppress it. Ifa

Yasa Shil-kai became Whore come from, dorms, inan who all the Army sat on and the other was a farm hand, not been opened; but had been held back our duty to contintle carrying out the

otice before turned from Germany. These letters had did not realize his object, but it admires, who day and night in all weathe war, and

34 now thers, soaking wet or covered with One of our most brilliant nirmich

10 Elve Society from this evil. Brime flash by with tight act lips and I believe, in a haberdasher's shop a long time, although sent from here as

early as July garden the dust and steady even through all

Of a certain group of six officers, only The Daglad remarks that on July 24th se

above are the fon raffic One knew, there wire was in the Indian Civil Service, one too busy with more vital things for the

the present det one was a Regular soldier, in the Guards, the German railways had therefore been Britain who loved each

master at a great school, one a pro- edevil work as this; but where have we found enough of them, so that on the framional musician, one a solicitor in a rails to be attended to. This holding

oface, one a journalist of roads of half France one never family of journalists. The most fright 24th is clear evidence of the fact that

up of the maila," it says “from July- father's

ful of our newest engines WET was a great movement of troops was pro KT invented weekly paper

fot the men are coming out but bearer AsseN STERKA Ze stretcher under the supervision of the local not to attend to

on

men

WHO MOBILISED FIRST?

A NEW REVELATION.

Under the heading, Who Mobilised

Bays

time

Flicewed at us for allow

note the way they sit their horsee the struck rainbows It was immensely good that Russia was the first to mobilise. Weerasabling Deblin

petence which stamps the bearing of every centaur were they

credible that they

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of earshot of the machine gun rettle their engines 1

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